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[OM] Re: In Praise of the Epson P3000

Subject: [OM] Re: In Praise of the Epson P3000
From: Chuck Norcutt <chucknorcutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 16:15:49 -0400
Hmmm.  Don't know how the old neurons are subbing "e" for "l" way on the 
other side of the keyboard and opposite hand but "quietey" was supposed 
to be "quietly".

Chuck Norcutt

Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> Your short cable is defective.  Throw it out.  There is no such thing as 
> a USB 2.0 cable except a marketing hype label.  If you visit the 
> official USB specifications site <http://www.usb.org/home> you will 
> discover that in the progression from USB 1.0 to 1.1 to 2.0 there has 
> never been a change in the spec for cables.
> 
> I suspect that the cable has a bad connection and the system is quietey 
> doing a zillion retries to get the data.
> 
> Chuck Norcutt
> 
> Daniel Sepke wrote:
>> Hurrah! After doing as you suggested Chuck I have found there is a
>> mislabeled short cable that isn't USB 2.0. It came with one of my devices
>> and since it was the shortest one I owned I switched it with the long one
>> that was supplied with the Imagemate reader. After changing it out I emptied
>> a full Ultra II 1GB card in 1 minute 49 seconds! Fantastic! I will now
>> replace that cable with a shorty from Cyberguys when I put in my next order.
>>
>>
>> Thanks for giving me a nudge to actually test this properly. I still love
>> the Epson though :)
>>
>> Dan S. 
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:olympus-owner@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf
>> Of Chuck Norcutt
>> Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 9:11 AM
>> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [OM] Re: In Praise of the Epson P3000
>>
>> I also have the Imagemate SDDR-92 and can verify that it reads Ultra II CF
>> cards at about 8.5 MB/sec when connected to my older 1.3 GHz AMD machine.  I
>> haven't tried it on my newer fire breathing Dell with Core 2 Duo processor
>> since it has its own reader which performs at pretty much the same rate.  I
>> take the 8.5 MB/sec +/- a bit to be close to the limit of the Ultra II.
>>
>> Have you tried a hookup directly to each of the three USB ports on the
>> machine without the docking station involved?  Have you ever tried your
>> reader on another machine?  Have you ever tried your reader using the cable
>> from one of the devices that doesn't seem to suffer performance problems?
>> If you can't find anyone locally to test it for you send me your SDDR-92 and
>> I'll test it and send it back.
>>
>> Chuck Norcutt
>>
>> Daniel Sepke wrote:
>>> Indeed something is wrong Chuck, but I have not been able to figure 
>>> out where. Perhaps a little more info may help?
>>>
>> SNIP
>>> Dan S.
>>
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